A multi-institutional team of engineers in China has developed a new type of brain-computer interface (BCI) that can be easily slipped in and out of the ear canal. In their project, reported in the journal Nature Communications, the group set out to design and build a new kind of BCI that is less invasive than existing devices.
research team suggests development of applications that convert full thoughts into text, controlling objects in real and virtual worlds—and even perhaps augmented memory.
Article title is misleading. This is just a fancy EEG that doesn’t need to be surgically implanted.
It can only”turn thoughts into text” if the user /recipient spends weeks/months training to “think loudly” enough for their words to be detectable in their brainwaves and translated by a machine like this
I think it’s really important for us to be careful of the misuse and abuse of BCIs, but the technology isn’t far enough yet for us to be worried about what you’ve described
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This sounds so cheesy I’m already anticipating the really bad text-to-speech voiceover.
Also sounds like the pipe dream of interrogators.
Article title is misleading. This is just a fancy EEG that doesn’t need to be surgically implanted.
It can only”turn thoughts into text” if the user /recipient spends weeks/months training to “think loudly” enough for their words to be detectable in their brainwaves and translated by a machine like this
I think it’s really important for us to be careful of the misuse and abuse of BCIs, but the technology isn’t far enough yet for us to be worried about what you’ve described
Ah fuck, I notice I fall back to reddit behavior of only reading titles. Thanks for clarifying (and for making me aware of my dangerous media usage).
I wonder if it made my tinnitus worse or better.